Re: [ns] Web Traffic simulation

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@packetdesign.com>]

Please read the sigcomm'99 paper by Anja Feldmann et al. WebTraf is
derived from the simulations used in that paper by Polly Huang.

You can use Http/Server etc to generate web traffic but it's heavy weight
and not appropriate for very large scale web traffic sim. Tehy are mainly
intended for simulating application layer stuff, e.g., cache.

- Haobo

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Prashant Desai wrote:

> I belive Web traffic simulated using PagePool/Webtraf  agent uses Half Tcp
> connection... Can anyone please tell me as to why the connection used are
> not Full tcp.
> 
> Also how closely does the WebTraffic  simulated using PagePool/Webtraf
> match Http traffic. I am reffering to the the method used to generate web
> traffic in the example tcl srcipt  web-traffic.tcl.
> 
> How different would this traffic be from 
> the one generated using explicit HTTP/server and HTTP/client agents ..
> 
> ie. Why does ns have the facility of PagePool/Webtraf when one could
> easily generate it using HTTP/server and HTTP/client agents...
> 
> Prashant
> 
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